House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said this week that President Donald Trump’s repetition of “falsehood after falsehood” about the coronavirus will cause misinformation to become more accepted than the facts.
“It’s one thing to not tell the truth, to convey falsehood after falsehood after falsehood,” Pelosi told “The Late Late Show” host James Corden on Monday. “But to do so, so repetitively that people almost accept it as partially true eclipses the facts.”
She added that scientists should “speak up” with the correct information when they hear Trump saying something false.
“So we have to insist on the truth because, again, it doesn’t seem like he has any, shall we say, thoughtfulness about mistakes that have been made,” Pelosi continued. “He keeps saying everything’s wonderful, but it isn’t.”
The speaker added that Trump’s desire to end lockdowns “because of the stock market or whatever” could end up hurting many communities where infections are slowing.
“Look, we all care about the economy, we care about the lives and the livelihoods of the American people and for a long time now bad decisions were made, or opportunities were ignored, so what we want now is let’s get on a good track,” she said.
Pelosi speculated that Trump is “in denial” when asked why he’s reluctant to trust experts.
“If you’re not evidence-based, if you’re not science-based, you have the luxury of just saying whatever you feel like,” she added. “And that luxury is one our country can no longer afford because it is, again, dangerous. I can’t psych out the president and why he does certain things, but I just do wonder how others can stand with him while he says the things he does in a way they’re accepting as truth.”
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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